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AM Inoculation in Tropical Agriculture: Field Results

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Mycorrhiza

Tropical soils usually pose serious problems to plant production. It is considered that about 30% of tropical soils around the world have problems of nutritional stress and that only 8% have no stress at all for plant growing. The rest of the tropical soils may have problems of water stress, flooding or very poor development (Sieverding 1991).

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  1. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Apartado 21827, Caracas, 1020A, Venezuela

    Gisela Cuenca & María Gabriela González

  2. Laboratorio de Nutritión Mineral de Plantas Silvestres, Centro de Botánica Tropical, Institute de Biología Experimental, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado, 47114, Caracas, 1041, Venezuela

    Alicia Cáceres

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Cuenca, G., Cáceres, A., González, M.G. (2008). AM Inoculation in Tropical Agriculture: Field Results. In: Varma, A. (eds) Mycorrhiza. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78826-3_20

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